Vatican I and Vatican II: Councils in the Living Tradition by Colberg Kristin M

Author:Colberg, Kristin M [Colberg, Kristin M]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 2016-05-22T16:00:00+00:00

It is in virtue of the same divine institution upon which the papacy rests that the episcopate also exists. It, too, has its rights and duties, because of the ordinance of God himself, and the Pope has neither the right nor the power to change them. Thus it is a complete misunderstanding of the Vatican decrees to believe that because of them “episcopal jurisdiction has been absorbed into the papal,” that the Pope has “in principle taken the place of each individual bishop,” that the bishops are now “no more than tools of the Pope, his officials, without responsibility of their own.” 2 1

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